Recommended Links of the Week (No. 730)

Want to know some of the things you'll find in these Recommended Links of the Week? Of course you do! The science of chemtrails, Mary Shelley's futuristic novel, Bruce Lee, the first library, holoportation, and gardener ants. Interested? Enjoy!

Bruce Lee, the 'Oriental Fury' - 50 years of his death and 'Operación Dragón': "No one, neither Asian nor Western, has surpassed his legendary stature. Not Jet Li, not Donnie Yen, not Tony Jaa, not even Jackie Chan. Not Chuck Norris, not Steven Seagal, not Mark Dacascos, not even Van Damme. They have all had to dole out punishment for half a century of martial arts cinema under the gigantic shadow of the “little” (1.72 m) Lee Jun-fan, universally known as Bruce Lee."

«The Last Man», the futuristic and dystopian novel by the author of «Frankenstein», which recounts a pandemic at the end of the 21st century: "The last man alive is the Spanish title given to the film The Omega Man, the cinematic adaptation that director Boris Sagal made in 1971 of the novel I Am Legend, a classic of the horror and science fiction genre published by American writer and screenwriter Richard Matheson in 1954. However, fantastic literature has a work of the same genre and similar title: The Last Man."

To the attack: piracy as a popular genre: "It is curious that such a despicable act as piracy has managed to become established in popular culture as a heroic figure enjoying all the sympathies of the public. That handsome, gentle man with a bandana on his head, a master of fencing, who boarded ships where he met a charming young lady who always fell in love with him, has nothing to do with a reality full of ruthless bloodthirsty killers dedicated to looting, and often to slavery."

The Guns N'Roses comic series in the 90s and the stabbing murder of its editor: "In the 80s, a kid who pirated music band T-shirts to sell clandestinely dared to launch a comic about rock artists. The comic industry had repeatedly dismissed his idea, but the explosion of Guns N'Roses, to whom he dedicated his first issue, made him rich. He kept launching rock comics and, at the same time, receiving lawsuits from record labels for using the image of their artists. He died stabbed in 1992, possibly by the Versace killer."

The Ebla archives, the first library in History: "Most of the fragments were found in two different rooms, such that the smaller room held a thousand texts, while in the larger one more than 15,000 texts came to light. In aspects like this lies the exceptional character of the Ebla library, as there are very few examples of real archives that were found practically intact and in situ, allowing us to reconstruct from the beginning their number, arrangement, and order in the two rooms."

The science of chemtrails: "Depending on the temperature and the amount of humidity in the air, these contrails evaporate quickly - if humidity is low - or persist and grow, otherwise, if ambient humidity is more pronounced. In fact, aircraft jet engine exhaust provides only a small portion of the water that forms ice in the case of persistent contrails, which are mainly composed of water naturally present in the atmosphere along the aircraft's flight path."

John Bardeen, the only scientist to have won two Nobel Prizes in Physics: "John Bardeen was born on May 23, 1908, in Madison, Wisconsin, into a family that loved effort and work. His university career began at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied electrical engineering between 1923 and 1928. He continued at this university for the next two years as a graduate research assistant in electrical engineering, working on mathematical problems in geophysics and antenna radiation."

MIT engineers 'grow' 2D transistors on chip wafers: "When technology advances, we are surprised by what we are capable of with it, but as you may know, we are reaching the limit of silicon. Even so, we have to create more powerful and denser chips to continue advancing, and here we have to look for alternatives. That is why MIT engineers have demonstrated a novel methodology that allows them to "grow" transistors with ultra-thin 2D material layers, allowing their density to increase."

This Wi-Fi alternative is 100 times faster, has just been approved, and is already being tested: "For some years now, several technology companies have been working on the development of a much faster, safer, and more efficient alternative to WiFi. Its name is LiFi, and its peculiarity lies in the use of light instead of radio frequencies to transmit data. Now, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has made official the launch of the first LiFi standard, 802.11bb."

How scientists performed complex calculations before the invention of calculators: "Newton, Gauss, Laplace, Euler, and many other mathematicians and scientists throughout history had to perform their most complex calculations without the help of digital calculators and computers, whose appearance in the 20th century completely revolutionized science, technology, and our own lives as a whole. The same as Pythagoras, Archimedes, and so many others since ancient times and long before."

NASA achieves the first 'holoportation' of a doctor in space: "The forms of communication and interaction among humans have been completely revolutionized with the arrival of various technologies such as the internet. But now it is not only about breaking the barrier of time and space in terms of the immediacy of message delivery, but also about 'holoportation', which in addition to transporting messages, also transports the very essence of the human individual, a technology that has been predicted for decades in science fiction narratives."

These are the incredible ants that create gardens where they grow fungi: "Scientists had already confirmed that ants eliminate only the weeds from their underground fungus gardens, but how they know what to eliminate and what not was a mystery. Until now: a multidisciplinary team of scientists has discovered the 'secret' of 'gardener' ants. The ants distinguish 'good' fungi from 'bad' ones. But, unlike humans, they do not do it with sight."

**Videos:** Handmade cabin, what is a green roof?, the fastest supermarket cart in the world, the making of "Another World" with Eric Chahi, octopus versus Paparazzi, a lot of ladybugs, epic rescue, toads baking a strawberry pie, cow patiently waits to cross the road, baby flamingo learns to stand on one leg, record reforestation, the bear test, they refuse to sell property and this happens, from acorn to oak, I remembered this game, turtle interrupts leopard hunt, meteorites and Antarctica, deadly mouse trap from 1862, the dachshund attack, and a complete South Park episode generated by AI.

**Galleries:** Comparison of extinct animals, aerial photos by Witold Ziomek, the best Wikipedia photos, images of the Nail Houses in China, collection of photographs by Liam Wong, Barbie and the plastic religion, mushrooms of Ecuador and more mushrooms of Ecuador, more about Black Alien, urban fun by Frankey Amsterdam, Animated Dump and the Visual Dump of the Week.

I'm very sleepy, so I'm off to bed. Thanks for stopping by!